Businesses are affected by fire every hour, every day, every week, every year.

Have you really considered the implications of fire? Take a look at these Fire Facts.

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Case Study:

Fire! York House, Berkhamsted

Tuesday was the same as usual and there was a full staff at York House. At 5.00 pm
we all

left and the alarms were set as normal. Little did we know that a cardboard box had
been

left next to the heater. At about 8.00pm the cardboard started to smoulder and then
caught fire.

Thankfully we had just had a full fire alarm system installed which activated as
soon as the smouldering started. This was linked to a ‘Red Care System’ and the alarm
receiving centre was notified.

The Fire Brigade was on site within seven minutes of the alarm being activated which
was definitely the saving of our building. Our independent key holder arrived within
20 minutes to assist the fire brigade.

Within one hour the fire was out leaving only one workshop fire damaged. However,
smoke damage was extensive throughout the building, despite the prompt action of
the fire detection system, and the fire fighters.

After the fire we were told by the Fire Brigade that had they arrived five minutes
later, we would have lost the whole building. This would have had massive implications
to our business. Thankfully we had made a decision to have a full fire alarm system,
with automatic fire detection installed by Activate, which saved our premises, business
and livelihoods.

Fire Fact #1: The majority of fires occur when a building is unoccupied resulting
in more extensive damage.

Fire Fact #2: It required 13 man days of work to photocopy smoke damaged paperwork
of a company that had suffered a fire. This had to be done before the papers deteriorated
irretrievably, due to chemical reaction.

Fire Fact #3: If equipment is not fire damaged, it will likely be smoke or water
damaged. In the case of electronic equipment it is not always immediately evident
that damage has occurred.

Fire Fact #4: Typically businesses are under insured against fire.

Fire Fact #5: If you are a school you have a 7% chance of a fire occurring.